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C06P07 – Double-take
Oh Tama, that’s what happens when you make assumptions about people. Cuz we all know what assumptions make, right?
…Well, if you’re me, you think they make an ass out of Matt.
STORY TIME — Cory has a close friend from high school named Matt and they have a…”contentious” is not the right word (unless they’re talking politics, in which case “contentious” is far too mild)…perhaps we’ll say “loud” relationship. They give each other a lot of sass, at the very least! And one day Cory said to me, “Well, you know what they say about assumptions — they make an ass out of Matt.”
Now, mind you, I had never heard the ACTUAL version of this saying before. And I didn’t know the context behind the adjusted phrase that Cory had, nor did I know Matt very well at that time.
So…I assumed that was the ACTUAL phrase.
Until I used it at work one day, and my coworker looked at me like I was crazy. “Uh…no, Robin. It’s ‘you and me.’ And who the heck is Matt??”
I learned a valuable lesson about assumptions that day. 
Have you ever learned a phrase wrong? If so, what was it, and how did you learn the right version?
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LOL. That is a funny story. I had an English teacher use that ass out of you and me phrase on me. I really did not like that teacher, so to this day I really cannot stand that saying.
Hmmm, so Kali is a priestess… I didn’t see that coming either, Tama, so don’t feel bad.
She doesn’t exactly project much a spiritual side, does she?
I suppose Kali being a priestess would make sense – we’ve already seen her dealing with visions from Bone Matron. She seems too, shall we say “free-spirited”, to be a traditional priestess though!
Also – missed you this weekend! Perhaps we can get together sometime when you come up to Golden?
Yes! Sorry about that! I wasn’t able to attend after all. I have your buttons all packed tho! I just have to get them to you!
So you’re back in the mountains then?? We should get together sometime soon!!
I don’t recall mis-learning phrases but I often mispronounced words. To be fair it was the weirder ones. But a video game taught me how to pronounce one. It was persephone. I would pronounce it “Purse-eh-phone.” I was playing a video game called Hercs adventures, or something , and hades said that he had “Persefoney” and I was all “THAT’S HOW you pronounce that…stupid greek words.”
Agreed! Greek words seem the worst mangled. To this day, I don’t know the correct way to say “Minos” — despite making a re-interpretation of the Legend of the Minotaur for one of my tournaments. I mean…we don’t say “ME-NO-otaur” so it shouldn’t be ME-nos…should it??
…I have NO clue. Stupid Greek words.
(That’s probably one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. Especially since I love the real expression.)
Jeeze, Tama. I’m starting to get an idea of why someone would be so upset about you being Scion. You are just not doing well at this.
You are only just now realizing that making Tama the ruler of anything is a terrible idea?
…I am not doing my job well enough. Tama, prepare for some ego bruising! Or beating. Or…maiming.
Well, the whole “I don’t want to be a leader” thing is never a good sign. And he’s such a little snot that it’s hard to picture him as a ruler.
Nevertheless, I thought he was a little suaver. Apparently not.
I think Tama likes to think of himself as suave. Actual levels of suaveness may vary.
My dad used to say “hope springs eternal” a lot. I don’t remember it, but apparently when I was three years old or so, I used to go around saying “ops bring it to me, turtle.” Now, my immediate family members usually substitute tiny-me’s version for the original.
That is the best saying ever. “Ops bring it to me, turtle!” Oh man. I need to use that in every day conversation now!!
I dunno about phrases, but I’ve mis-learned the pronunciation on a lot of words. I finally started reading the phonetic pronunciations every time I look up a word.
The real prize, though, is my grandpa – he deliberately taught my mom and her sibs the wrong pronunciation for a LOT of words. “Knife” was kuh-nif’-ee, “photography” was fo’-to-graf’-ee (pardon the bastardized notation)… the list goes on. I think they figured out that he was doing this fairly young and taught themselves to say things the way my grandma said them, but a few words slipped through the cracks and got some strange looks from teachers at their schools.
Your grandpa sounds like a fantastic mix of awesome and fiendish.
I’ve a friend that had a brother purposefully teach them the wrong words for objects during road trips when they were little. For years, they thought “haystack” = the word for tractor.